The KinoSearch code base has been assimilated by the Apache Lucy project.
The "KinoSearch" namespace has been deprecated,
but development continues under our new name at our new home: http://lucy.apache.org/

path - Location of the index. If the specified directory does not exist already, it will NOT be created, in order to prevent misconfigured read applications from spawning bogus files -- so it may be necessary to create the directory yourself.